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bahmanm

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Husband, father, kabab lover, history buff, chess fan and software engineer. Believes creating software must resemble art: intuitive creation and joyful discovery.

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  • OK, I think I see your point more clearly now. I suppose that's what many others do (apparently I don't represent the norm ever 😂.)

    So tags can be useful for not only listening but also discovery.

    I guess my concern RE tag & community competing. But I've got no prior experience designing a social/community based application to be confident to take my case to the RFC.

    Hopefully time will prove me wrong.

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  • That's a fair use-case.

    You see memes in your feed (despite not subscribing to meme'y communities). Three things come to my mind, thinking out loud here:

    (1) Could it be b/c the community is not granular enough? Remember we're in the early stages of Lemmy w/ big "holistic" communities. I'd suppose as we grow, a overarching community will specialise and be split into several more specific ones?

    (2) Creating "filters" based on tag/content is a fair usecase and I would second the idea as long as the main dimension of organisation remains "community." I'm a bit over-attached to "community" b/c I feel that's a defining element of Lemmy experience & am afraid that touching that balance may change the essence.

    (3) Tags can be used to achieve (2) indeed but is the added complexity (❓) to the codebase and UI/UX worth it?

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  • I'm not sure I understand the value of tags for Lemmy (or Reddit in a similar vein.)

    Lemmy's main (& sole?) dimension of organisation is the concept of "community." You subscribe to communities to automatically receive their updates on your feed.

    Now, tags are going to add another dimension for organisation which allows one to curate their feed w/o subscribing.

    The good thing about tags is that they simplify "listening." No need to keep searching for communities or keep scrolling through your feed to find the content you're interested in.

    The downside of tags, IMO, is that it fundamentally competes w/ the concept of "communities" in the sense that, why would I bother w/ finding communities and "explore", and consequently, potentially contribute to the content of a community where I can simply listen to tags I'm interested in and forget about the rest.IMO, the reason that tags (moderated or not) are working so beautifully on Mastodon is the lack of communities: listening is the only option.

    I stand to be corrected, but it (tags and communities) very much feels like an either/or situation.

    PS: Despite its quality and friendliness, Lemmy's user base and the content they creates is still small. That means, for the time being, communities may work just fine. As we grow and so does our volume of content, we'd probably need new strategies to augment communities. Though I wouldn't call that a concern of now or near future.

    My 2 cents.

  • What if You Knew What You Were Missing on Social Media? (By Julia Angwin)

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  • The first few paragraphs were a good read where the author makes a good point.

    Sadly, it somehow turns into a BluSky promotion afterwards.

    Good read, nonetheless.

  • Why is the default setting for the startpage's feed "Local" and not "All"

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  • junk

    I'd say "irrelevant to my interests" 🤷‍♂️

  • The Printer That Simply Worked

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  • 😆Can someone make a similar one for bluetooth devices too, pretty please?

  • @linux thank God for Timeshift

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  • I agree w/ you RE posts looking horrible 👍

    Though I'd say for one-liners like this, it's mostly OK. It gets really messy when folks post more complex posts and mention and tag a bunch of times.

  • @linux I was able to install Keyscape on Ubuntu Studio, but the GUI won't work in the standalone or VST. Does anyone know how to resolve this? Should be similar if anyone h

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  • I'm afraid I can't be of any help 😕

  • @linux I was able to install Keyscape on Ubuntu Studio, but the GUI won't work in the standalone or VST. Does anyone know how to resolve this? Should be similar if anyone h

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  • Any error logs? Try launching things from the terminal and note down any messages that are printed there.

  • Best practices for navigating file structure via terminal?

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  • That's a good question 💯 In my case too, it took me some time (read years 😂) to figure out what I'm comfortable w/.

    I can think of 3 major ways that you can navigate the filesystem while being able to drop to a shell when you need it:

    • If you're familiar w/ Emacs, you can either:
      • Use dired and tramp on your machine to access/navigate the target machine.
      • Install Emacs (emacs-nox) on the target machine, SSH and then run emacs-nox and voila! No need for tramp in this scenario.
    • Use Midnight Commander (mc) which offers a TUI pretty much like Norton Commander (nc) from the days of yore.
    • Get used to the semi-standard structure of the file system and just use plain Bash (cd, pushd & popd) to move around. That is
      • Understand what usually goes into common directories (like /usr/share or /opt) and try to follow the same pattern when rolling your own software installations.
      • Learn how to use your distro's package manager to query packages and find out where things, like configurations and docs, are stored. Something as simple as rpm -q --list is what you usually need.

    HTH

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  • messing with the partition any more than I already have

    Running fsck is a harmless and actually pretty useful operation, esp if you boot using a USB stick.

    But yes, never hurts to have backups - easier said than done 😂

  • Thoughts on makedeb, Debian's unofficial makepkg clone that comes with its own version of the AUR as well?

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  • I'm not on a Debian-based system but a recent experience w/ packaging a software as a DEB was quite eye-opening 😅 The format and the build process felt too cluttered (to me) and it wasn't easy for me to wrap my head around it.

    I'm happy that folks are working on alternatives ✌️

  • Resized my mouted root partition and now 1 min delayed startup

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  • Have you tried booting into recovery mode and perform a fsck on the drive - using the grub menu? Or you could boot via USB and try the procedure.

  • [ubuntu 22.04] Firefox keeps forgetting logins

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  • I wanted to say "I'm not sure. I'm not on Ubuntu" but then I remembered about distrobox 😄

    It took only a few minutes to confirm that the links I shared earlier (https://lemmy.ml/comment/3090571) do NOT install the snap version.

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  • Would it make sense to stick to the good old DEB package instead of the snap then?

    The Mozilla Team PPA seems to be legit. If you're not sure how to do it, please take a look at OMGI Ubuntu guide which uses the same PPA.

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  • Not an Ubuntu user, but I think it's all about how a snap uses filesystem, esp directories which are not writable by the "world", such as your home directory.

  • [ubuntu 22.04] Firefox keeps forgetting logins

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  • Have you tried installing a non-snap version to confirm the theory?

  • Bazzite: An immutable Fedora-based OS optimized for gaming on any device, from desktops to laptops to the Steam Deck

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  • Interestingly "Bazzi" means "game" in Farsi 🤷‍♂️

  • Facebook is Corrupt Evil Spyware

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  • Tell me something I don't know already 😂 The challenge is helping non-techies understand why they should wean themselves off of FB 🤷‍♂️

  • Copyleft: Pragmatic Idealism by Richard Stallman

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  • The GNU GPL is not Mr. Nice Guy. It says no to some of the things that people sometimes want to do. There are users who say that this is a bad thing—that the GPL “excludes” some proprietary software developers who “need to be brought into the free software community.”

    But we are not excluding them from our community; they are choosing not to enter. Their decision to make software proprietary is a decision to stay out of our community. Being in our community means joining in cooperation with us; we cannot “bring them into our community” if they don't want to join.